The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Difference between revisions

===Systems thinking 1960s style===

There is so much that is breathtaking about this book. That its author had neither tertiary education nor any experience in urban planning; that is was published in sixty years ago yet seems to depict uncannily the [[high-modernist]] attitudes that {{author|James C. Scott}} skewered forty years later in {{br|Seeing Like A State}}, but which seem to persist today; that its prescription, in is so counterintuitive, visionary, clear and ''brilliant'', and that it is so liberal — ''really'' liberal as opposed to [[libtard]] liberal — pluralistic and imaginative.